iTerm2

“does not work anywhere close to as nice as iTerm2's hotkey window”

“iTerm2 (for tabbed quake terminal and configurability)”

“I find its .plist config file a lot anachronistic and, if I may say so, quite absurd.”

“gives you access to all settings in a (admittedly kinda crappy) GUI”

“In my case I used iTerm for years and kinda liked it, but not completely.”

“I have small compact tabs which I color code dynamically with iTerm2 and also custom profiles with custom keyboard keys overrides by program and directory.”

“Excellent terminal but too many features for what I was looking for.”

“With iTerm you had to export the profile and keybindings, and then import them on a new system which was clumsy”

“iTerm2 is not bad, although it lacks Symbols for Legacy Computing Unicode support”

“iTerm 2 jumped the shark when the author started implementing a homemade web browser into it”

“They have many quality of life improvements over the basic terminal.”

“it just feels outdated compared to apps Ghostty / other modern terminals”

“3.6.9 (which was affected) was the most recent iTerm2 when that CVE came out.”

“iterm2 is the slowest terminal emulator I know of, so I didn't even bother trying”

“open a new tab in my emulator (iTerm2) which can be clicked or hotkeyed between”

“ITerm2 has a really great tmux integration where you get native windows or tabs for tmux windows”

“notifications in iTerm is good enough to juggle some claude sessions”

“it's a really fast text renderer that can render tens of thousands of rows efficiently”

“My opencode newly installed is also having iterm on 100% cpu in idle.”

“will lock into pinch/rotate gestures when the cursor's over say Zed or iTerm2”

“ran the exploit (generated the file with the python script, ran `cat readme.txt` locally), and it worked.”

“iTerm 2's "conductor" is listening for the special escape sequences, whether or not you are using the shell integration features.”

“Thank you for iTerm2, I appreciate your response here, enjoy your vacation!”

“This is only the latest of several rather serious vulnerabilities in iTerm2's SSH integration.”

“Wasn't iTerm2's SSH integration already the source of a relatively high profile CVE a while back?”

“I wish if he focused on the security for a while and tightened some bugs instead of pushing into AI related features”

“iTerm2 makes it nice for example, even if it's only to use the meta/super key instead of the heavily overloaded control.”

“I've been thoroughly impressed with tmux control mode in iTerm2.”

“though useful, is a symptom of that lack of desktop UI progress”

“a bit more powerful and intuitive since you can do things like drag them”

“None of these reasons are very compelling to give up a mature terminal deeply embedded into my workflows”

“I used to use the iTerm programmable notification bell which would ring when a particular output was printed in the terminal”

“iTerm2 had a performance bug where large amounts of underlined text would cause the terminal to slow down noticeably”

“iterms notification feature which helps get to the waiting terminal if it's buried”

“than my macOS workflow with a global hotkey iTerm2 window”

“I was amused the iterm2 added select without having to type control-c.”

“I either missed or accidentally denied the permission to access local networks for iTerm.”

“iterm2 has some options to fix key bind issues that hamper emacs in the terminal.”

“I was suffering a little wasted disk space, slightly slower start-up, and slightly worse input latency, for... no reason”

“none of the emulators ranked higher than iTerm2 support Tek 4010 mode, which iTerm2 does support”